Well…in the time that I’ve been gone from here, I finally got my partial dentures 3 weeks ago and I’m finally getting used to them…still can’t talk for crap but I just need practice for that and I don’t get any being alone all the time…think I’ll go back to reading aloud since the only way to train my mouth is by talking and I read all the time so that does help…over the past couple of days I’ve even been able to chew hard stuff like pretzels with no pain…they replaced the molars that were lost to infection and it is nice to have molars again and to not have to chew so carefully…still can’t taste anything so that is the next thing I’ll address at my yearly checkup in the spring…